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38-677: Queen Street may refer to: Australia [ edit ] Queen Street, Brisbane Queen Street, Fremantle Queen Street, Melbourne Queen Street, Woollahra , Sydney Canada [ edit ] Queen Street, Hamilton Queen Street, Ottawa Queen Street, Toronto Queen Street East, Brampton (Peel Regional Road 107), in Brampton, Ontario Queen Street West, Brampton (Peel Regional Road 6), in Brampton, Ontario United Kingdom [ edit ] England [ edit ] Queen Street, Oxford Queen Street, London , in

76-614: A community appear more attractive for tourism or to stem a flow of commerce out of the city into suburbs with shopping malls and cookie-cutter big box stores . In the United States federal funds are allocated specifically for restoration of historic properties on the former U.S. Route 66 , the main street of many roadside towns; this funding is administered by the US National Park Service . Main Street

114-412: A farming and investment company. The present McDonald's restaurant is located directly opposite in the building formerly occupied by Jo Jo's Restaurant. Main street Main Street is a metonym used to denote a primary retail street of a village , town or small city in many parts of the world. It is usually a focal point for shops and retailers in the central business district , and

152-467: A feature of main streets, and for example are beneficial in terms of tourism and 'Tidy Towns' efforts. TV celebrity gardener and presenter Diarmuid Gavin hosted two series of programmes called 'Dirty Old Towns' from 2011-13 on the national broadcaster RTE1 that often highlighted the poor physical state of main streets in some well known towns in Ireland and showcased improvements to buildings or gardens in

190-537: A tribute to General MacArthur. Tram services along Queen Street were converted to buses on 14 April 1969. In 1981, the part of the street between Albert Street and Edward Street was closed to traffic. This section was opened as the Queen Street Mall in 1982, in time for the Commonwealth Games . Later, the section between Albert Street and George Street was converted into an extension of

228-703: Is a community revitalization program begun by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the late 1970s. The core of the Main Street Approach is the revitalization of commercial districts via economic development and historic preservation . The Main Street Approach is a holistic approach to downtown and neighborhood commercial district revitalization based on the 4-point approach of design, promotion, economic vitality, and organization. Originally targeted at small, traditional downtowns,

266-628: Is also used to refer to a town's main street. Two Walt Disney Company theme parks , Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and the Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, both have " Main Street, U.S.A. " sections immediately at their front. These areas, which are designed to look like the main street of a small town, house gift shops, restaurants and various services, along with park offices on

304-502: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Queen Street, Brisbane Queen Street is the main street of Brisbane , the capital of Queensland , Australia. It is named after Queen Victoria . The western part of the street is covered by a new plaza at the base of Brisbane Square and underneath part of the western half is the Queen Street bus station . Queen Street

342-470: Is heavily built up with arcades , shops, hotels, offices and apartment high-rises such as MacArthur Central , Brisbane Square , Central Plaza , Aurora Tower , Treasury Casino , Wintergarden , Broadway on the Mall , The Myer Centre and QueensPlaza . Queen Street is also the location of Brisbane's General Post Office . Queen Street is the city's central road, partly covered by a pedestrian mall called

380-589: Is most often used in reference to retailing, socializing, and the place to go to find "common" concerns. The term is commonly used in Ireland, Scotland, the United States, and Canada, and less often in Australia and New Zealand. In the non-Scottish regions of the United Kingdom, the common description is High Street , though "Fore Street" or "Front Street" is commonplace in some parts. In Jamaica

418-585: Is part of the iconography of American life. For example, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service , the outfit that operates the PX and BX stores on military bases, chose the name "Main Street USA" for its food courts. Main Street was a popular term during the economic crises in 2008 and 2009: the proposed bailout of U.S. financial system , the 2008 US presidential campaign , and debates . One widely reviewed book

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456-556: Is still used to describe the main thoroughfare of the central business district. The "Main Street of America" branding was used to promote U.S. Route 66 in its heyday. In the general sense, the term "Main Street" refers to a place of small-town traditional values, usually in contrast to big-city modernity. Social realists from 1870 to 1930 used the name as a symbol of stifling conformity. Sherwood Anderson , for example, wrote Winesburg, Ohio : A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life in 1919. The best-selling 1920 novel Main Street

494-727: Is the place/road name used in many suburbs, towns, and villages in Ireland . For example, the OSI North Leinster Town Maps book lists sixteen Main Streets and only two High Streets in its thirty-town index of street names. Similarly, the OSI Dublin Street Guide, which covers all of Dublin City and County Dublin , lists twenty Main Streets and only two High Streets. Killarney and Galway are two of

532-532: The Queen Street Mall . It ends at the Victoria Bridge and is bounded by two of the Brisbane River 's central reaches. Uptown at the top of the mall is George Street . The next street parallel to the south is Elizabeth Street , while Adelaide Street is the next parallel street to the north. Before 1842 and free settlement, Queen Street was originally a track leading from the main section of

570-602: The "Shopfront Design Guide, 2001" and "Shopfront Design Guidelines for the O'Connell Street Area, 2003" of Dublin City Council, and the "Guide to Good Shopfronts." There are also for further examples; the "Guidelines for Shopfront Design in Bray, 2007" (and its earlier, shorter iteration of c.2000) of Bray Town Council, and the 2014 "Shopfront Design Guide" of South Dublin County Council. Kerry County Council also issued

608-784: The City of London Queen Street, Mayfair , London Scotland [ edit ] Queen Street, Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh Wales [ edit ] Queen Street, Cardiff , Wales Other places [ edit ] Queen Street, Boston , a previous name of Court Street Queen Street, Auckland , New Zealand Queen Street, Dublin , Ireland Queen Street, Hong Kong , in Sheung Wan Queen Street, Penang , also locally known as Lebuh Queen, Malaysia Queen Street, Singapore See also [ edit ] Queen Street station (disambiguation) Great Queen Street , London All pages with titles containing Queen Street Topics referred to by

646-666: The LDA (Land Development Agency), and local Architects/ County Councils, or Heritage Council/ OPW (Office of Public Works), etc. The Urban Institute of Ireland (based in UCD), and the School of Environment and Planning (in DIT) could also help in terms of academic basis, research and development. A similar voluntary 'townscape' society or similar (like the Georgian Society and Tidy Towns), for

684-652: The United States) or " Bay Street " (in Canada), symbolizing the interests of large national corporations. Thus, in the 1949 movie adaptation of On The Town , the song "When You Walk Down Main Street With Me" refers to small-town values and social life. Main Street Republicans , for example, see themselves as supporting those values as against urbane or "Wall Street" tendencies. "Main Street"

722-478: The area is named "Mickey Ave," but also has the same style as Main Street. Disney's design copied visual elements of small-town America seen in films by Frank Capra and others, in a deliberate attempt to capture the iconic symbolism of small-town America. Disney wanted to embed the values and memories associated with life in small towns into an entertainment experience for tourists. Main Street America

760-583: The early Moreton Bay Penal Colony, crossing a stream known as Wheat Creek with a deviation going up to the Windmill . In early 1840, a surveyor named Dixon drew up a survey for the central Brisbane streets with all streets 66 feet (20 metres) wide. Changes were then made to this plan with square blocks flattened into a rectangular grid with streets becoming 1.4 chains (27 metres). On Governor Gipps' visit to Brisbane Town in March 1842, Gipps remarked that Brisbane Town

798-496: The few Irish towns in which the term High Street is used instead of Main Street. Recent and upcoming tranches of funding for Local Authority-led projects seek to help regenerate Main Streets, and town and city centres around Ireland under the URDF (Urban Regeneration Development Fund) and RRDF (Rural Regeneration Development Fund). There were also earlier, 1990s to early 2000s, tax-incentive based initiatives, for private interests, for

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836-738: The fire as "the whole of the business premises and private residences...were, in a couple of hours, reduced to a heap of ruins". On 9 December 1882, a demonstration of electricity was conducted with eight arc lights along Queen Street. Power was supplied by a 10 hp generator driven by a small engine in a foundry in Adelaide Street . This was Australia's first recorded use of electricity for public purposes. In 1885, Poul C. Poulsen opened his photographic studio at 7 Queen Street. Ada Driver trained at Poulson’s studio before opening her own photographic studio, ‘Ada Driver’s Studio’, at 51 Queen street in 1906. In 1902, part of Queen Street

874-613: The general public in returning to town and village centre living in the modern era. These efforts specifically included the 'Town and Village Renewal Schemes' (financial grants of up to €100,000) and previous Town Renewal Scheme, 1999 and Urban Renewal Scheme. There is also a recent pilot project(s) of funding for town centre improvements in (six) different rural Irish towns dispersed around the country, and for example, noting including various town/village rejuvenation projects in County Monaghan. The Town Renewal scheme, for example,

912-735: The old converted convict barracks on Queen Street. In 1864, there were two significant fires along the street. The September 1864 fire started in the Little Wonder store on Edward Street which destroyed 14 shops in Queen Street. This event later became known as Bulcock's Fire. On 1 December 1864, the Great Fire of Brisbane started within the cellar of a Queen Street drapery store which burnt down buildings bordering Queen Street, as well as Albert Street , Edward Street, George Street and Elizabeth Street. Brisbane Courier described

950-545: The pedestrian mall, timed to coincide with Brisbane's Expo '88 . A number of buildings were demolished on Queen Street in the 1980s, including Her Majesty's Theatre , the Wintergarden cinema and the Odeon cinema as the mall development proceeded. There are many heritage-listed buildings in Queen Street, including: The present Hungry Jacks fast food restaurant occupies Beak House, a listed building previously owned by

988-426: The program has expanded to include towns of various sizes, including neighborhood districts in several large urban centers. In many communities, a merchants' association or business improvement district serves a promotional role on behalf of the merchants of a downtown Main Street. Individual city governments also may engage in revitalization or historic preservation efforts to support a downtown core, either to make

1026-637: The promotion and restoration of town and village centres, could also have similar potential for project initiating/ leading benefits, to also help link the National Planning Framework (National Spatial Strategy replacement), and National Development Plans aims, in a similar fashion to the aim promulgated by the URDF and RRDF rationale. This is noting for example, that a report (2016 Pobal HP Deprivation Index) published in November 2007 by Pobal (an intermediary organisation for funding from

1064-498: The quite comprehensive "Shopfront Design Guidelines and Policy" document in 2010, and for Kilkenny City the "Shopfronts and Advertising Signs Kilkenny Planning Information Booklet." There have been previous concerns sometimes raised that tax incentives, or the more recent planning 'exemptions' have, or may lead to confusion regarding permissible, or recommended interventions in shopfronts, such as removal of shopfront elements or otherwise good quality, traditional shopfronts that are often

1102-596: The refurbishments of buildings, and 'Living over the Shop' (LOTS) schemes, based along specified lengths of urban streets, under Village and Urban Renewal Schemes and that overall, sought the regeneration of main street Ireland. Some of these schemes may have suffered from sufficient lack of interest or impact due to for example, business owners insurance and security issues regarding separate occupiers above for LOTS projects, and general lack of finance and familiarity with residential projects and landlordism, and depressed interest of

1140-454: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Queen Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Queen_Street&oldid=1123014521 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1178-476: The second floors. While the architecture of these "streets" appears to be turn-of-the-20th-century, in fact these are decorative false-fronts on industrial-style buildings. Main Street, U.S.A. is also present at Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland . At Tokyo Disneyland the area is named "World Bazaar," but has the same look as Main Street, albeit housed under a decorative glass roof for protection from Japan's unpredictable weather. At Shanghai Disneyland ,

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1216-410: The term is Front Street. In the 1950s awareness about the 'main street' as a concept of its own importance emerged in the urban studies field, attaining the attention in the theoretical discussions of postmodern urban design, neo-traditional planning and meta-urbanism. In many places, the street name for such a street is actually "Main Street", though even where it isn't the actual name, "Main street"

1254-936: The town centres on or near their main street. In a similar stream, it has been noted in the past, e.g. in the UK by its national print media, that '24/7' full Pedestrianisation of town centres and main streets can lead to passive security issues and fear of use in night time hours. Noting likely economic impacts of the Covid-19 emergency (as of April 2020) on funds and economy, some refinement and redirection of URDF, and RRDF monies also towards more generalised, and labour-intensive refurbishments of main street's buildings may also have visible tangible impacts. This could be in cooperation with Local Authorities, state agencies, and private owners (e.g. subsidised external fabric refurbishments of derelict/ semi-derelict terraced buildings), and potentially project-led led by in-house expertise from for example,

1292-489: Was Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street (2012) by Neil Barofsky . In small towns across the United States, Main Street is not only the major road running through town but the site of all street life, a place where townspeople hang out and watch the annual parades go by. A slang term popularized in the early 20th century, " main drag ",

1330-569: Was "simply an ordinary provincial settlement", which would need no grand avenues. As a result, Gipps moved the planned width of Queen Street, along with other streets, back to 66 feet (20 metres), arguing that this change would mean that buildings could be kept out of the sun. Later, there was compromise with the main street that would be known as Queen Street, with the western boundary's width changed to 1.2 chains (24 metres). The first sitting of Legislative Assembly of Queensland in May 1860 occurred in

1368-499: Was a 10-year tax relief incentive scheme for renovations or new builds that was to improve the 'Townscape' and 'Streetscape' of smaller Irish towns, through the physical improvements of buildings e.g. views building façades on 'main streets'. The efforts of local governments (county councils, city councils, and the former town councils, until 2017) to improve 'main streets' centered around their Planning Departments and County Development Plans. These included shopfront design guides such as

1406-525: Was a critique of small-town life by the American writer Sinclair Lewis . The locale was "Gopher Prairie," presented as an 'ideal type' of the Midwestern town, and the heroine, Carol Kennicott, was a more urbane, 'ideal-typical' Progressive. In North American media of later decades, "Main Street" represents the interests of everyday people and small business owners, in contrast with " Wall Street " (in

1444-570: Was not paved or sealed although stormwater drainage was well maintained. Queen Street is historically significant as it contains MacArthur Central , the building in which the American General Douglas MacArthur had his South West Pacific headquarters (from July 1942 to November 1944) during World War II and directed the Allied Forces campaign. The former AMP building was later renamed MacArthur Central as

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